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Latest blog posts from Outside The Beltway

Talking About Foreign Policy
I#8217;ve posted the first entry in my series on the policy issues that confront us, on foreign policy, at The Glittering Eye. I continue to hope for a multi-blog and cross-blog discussion. Please make your own contributions! pa href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/OTB?a=o2hah7"img... Read more...
Published 27 minutes ago

Obama Lead Solidifies Going into 2nd Debate
Barack Obama and Joe Biden continue to pull away from John McCain and Sarah Palin in the national polls, bolstered by the economic crisis and superior performances in the first two debates.  The new WSJ/NBC poll parallels recent findings: Voters were much more likely to say they felt good about... Read more...
Published a hour ago

Caption Contest Winners
The Smmmmokin#8217; Edition OTB Caption ContestTM is now over. (Alexander Demianchuk/Reuters) #10032; THE WINNERS #10032; First: Bystander - A McCain aid celebrates after finding the snowball that put the Senator on the #8216;08 ticket. Second: markm - In a show of unity and... Read more...
Published 15 hours ago

Riddle Me This
What do you get when you combine high oil prices, government subsidies on gasoline, and a financial crisis spreading around the world? You get Pakistan on the brink of insolvency: Officially, the central bank holds $8.14 billion (£4.65 billion) of foreign currency, but if forward liabilities... Read more...
Published 18 hours ago

Is the B.A. Just B.S?
Charles Murray, he of Bell Curve fame/infamy, argues that a system where everyone is expected to get a four year college degree to get a decent job is silly.  I agree.  I find this description amusing: First, we will set up a single goal to represent educational success, which will take four... Read more...
Published 18 hours ago

Talking About the Issues
Over at my own blog, The Glittering Eye, I#8217;ve begun a week-long discussion of critical policy issuesmdash;you know, the pressing issues at hand that are being submerged in the horserace aspect of the election, the scandal du jour, the sound bites, and the sloganeering. I#8217;m hoping to... Read more...
Published 24 hours ago

Obama a Terrorist! McCain a Crook!
We#8217;ve reached the seemingly inevitable part of the campaign where the trailing candidates start hurling charges out of desperation and the leader responds in kind. In the closing days of 1992, President George H.W. Bush, ordinarily among the most decent, genteel fellows you#8217;d ever... Read more...
Published a day ago

Caption Contest
Time for the Monday OTB Caption ContestTM (AFP/File/Dieter Nagl) Winners will be announced Thursday PM pa href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/OTB?a=swd2wq"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/OTB?i=swd2wq" border="0"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a... Read more...
Published a day ago

OTB Latenight - Bo Diddley
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Published a day ago

Opinions on Afghanistan
Yesterday the New York Times published three op-eds presenting opinions on Afghanistan, one by Robert D. Kaplan, one by Nathaniel C. Fick and Vikram J. Singh, fellows at the Center for a New American Security, and Nader Nadery and Haseeb Humayoon, two Afghans involved with NGO#8217;s. In his... Read more...
Published 2 days ago

Lighter Side of the Financial Crisis
In this satirical video, British humorists John Bird and John Fortune, a/k/a #8220;the Long Johns,#8221; explain the financial crisis. It#8217;s actually nearly a year old but it still works. Humor across the Pond is a tad different, not least of which is less fear of risking alienating racial... Read more...
Published 2 days ago

SNL Parodies VP Debates (Video)
#8220;Saturday Night Live#8221; parodied the debate between Joe Biden and Sarah Palin, getting in good zingers against both. It#8217;s starting to feel like Tina Fey is running for vice president. Fey again returned to #8220;Saturday Night Live#8221; to play Republican vice presidential... Read more...
Published 2 days ago